• baines@lemmy.cafe
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        3 days ago

        which was the point?

        uk driving school takes itself seriously

        I can understand maybe being confused by my comment but my other 2 in this thread right below would have cleared it up

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          3 days ago

          I don’t mean to sound like a cock, but why should I search through all the comments to find a comment making your original comment clearer, which may or may not be there? No, it didn’t make it clearer.

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            3 days ago

            imagine being this full of yourself

            do you ever wonder why people treat you the way they do in real life?

            probably not

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                3 days ago

                yea nah, I didn’t make him reply to me any more than I’m making you here

                be respectful if you want respect

                so you can fuck right off as well lol

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              3 days ago

              Mate this is a bit of an over reaction to me suggesting you be clear in your first comment. You could have even edited the first comment.

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      3 days ago

      What’s the connection to someone struggling to learn to drive?

      Because that’s what I see, and frankly don’t understand it. Today’s cars are tremendously easier to drive than what I learned on, and you should see what my parents had to do to pass their tests, driving manual transmissions without synchronizers, having to start on a hill - smoothly, etc.

      All I see here is someone who finds driving particularly difficult, like I find math particularly difficult, or some people find spelling or grammar particularly difficult.

      If anything, I give OP credit for sticking with it and not giving up, despite the cost. It’s really hard to keep trying when it feels like you’re just always struggling.

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        3 days ago

        if only automatic transmissions made people know and obey traffic laws, not run red lights or drive drunk

        but my point was about the weakly enforced education component and how relatively easy it is to get a license in the US

        so even if he struggled the fact he was required to show minimum competence instead of simply processed through is my point

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      4 days ago

      You make it sound free lol. I definitely would love to make it harder to get a license In the USA, but you have to learn, get a permit, drive with an adult for six months, pass at least one written and one driven test. Spending 5200£ is fucking ludicrous. No test should be that hard

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        3 days ago

        i watched a guy have his mom basically do his eye exam for him when i was waiting for a renewal once my belief on the dmv sticking to the rules is low

        no test should be that expensive but it for sure should be that hard as driving kills so many people

        it’s pretty common to have part of the requirement be drivers ed in schools around here and the stories i hear from extended family are crazy

        that also ignores issues like the elderly as well, 72 year old lady ran a red light t boned my mom, totaled my mazda truck to where the wheel came off 40+ through a red light no breaks, shed had her lawyer on speed dial he beat the ambulance there, this was her second one that month (no charges)

        the us is so car dependent and so lacking in mass transportation that we let almost anyone drive

        how many dui repeats on the road? hint its real bad